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	Charles Amirkhanian-Mental Radio
		Composer, poet, and percussionist Charles Amirkhanian is one of the leading United States exponents of text-sound composition, the intermedium between music and literature.
		Using the recording studio as his composing desk, Amirkhanian incorporates tape loops, tape delay, multi-track layering, digital modulation, and synthetic and acoustic percussion tracks in combination with ambient sound recordings to produce enigmatic wordscapes characterized by intense rhythmic activity and abstract objectification of words into sound.
		Since 1969, Amirkhanian has developed his current style of restless minimalism in which repeated figures are sustained for short periods of time before giving way to other variations on similar themes.
	www.ubu.com /sound/amir.html (886 words)

	American Mavericks: An interview with Charles Amirkhanian
		CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN: If you go back to 1920, there was a kind of feeling among American musicians that composers should study in Germany or France to be able to learn how to do it right.
		Then you had composers like Dain Ruchaird, who is a Frenchman, and Edgard Varèse, also from France, both active in New York with their societies of new music that they founded to oppose the kind of standard orchestral fare that was given by the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony and so forth.
		Seeger was a very open minded kind of guy, and he realized that he had a tiger by the tail with Cowell, and he sort of gave him his head to experiment with as a composer.
	www.musicmavericks.org /features/interview_amirkhanian.html (7555 words)

	Xebec Sound Arts 10-Amirkhanian
		Rather than focusing on the theme of the music alone, the festival is unique for its focus on the relationships between the composers and their relationship with society.
		Amirkhanian: For instance, we have had discussions about censorship because in America there were some senators who were saying that artists should not have money because they use profanity or they sometimes incorporate sexually explicit material.
		Amirkhanian: Yes, in Indonesia, in the countryside when he was giving a concert outside, tanks came.
	www.sukothai.com /X.SA.10/X.10.Amirkhanian.html (891 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		Charles Amirkhanian's electronic collage music, according to Laurie Anderson, is "descriptive, specific, lush, and oddly exotic." She goes on to say: "The art of audio collage has been reinvented here...
		In this case, they refer to the use of recorded acoustic sounds that are expanded electronically as "the composers build phrases, sections and eventually the overall musical structure of their works." Amirkhanian's 'Politics As Usual' brings together recognizable and processed sounds sampled from a remarkably wide range of musical instruments and environmental sources.
		It's all wonderful, and the interview, recorded by Amirkhanian in 1977, is an exceptionally valuable document in which Nancarrow explains how he got started punching player piano rolls, how he put his music onto the rolls, and in general, how he composes.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=camirkhaniancds (548 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Charles Amirkhanian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A synthesis of electronic and acoustic effects, voices and background noise, his compositions strive to capture listeners’ bodies and minds in tonal and textural entanglements, reticulated rhythms, and syntactical assemblages.
		Carrying a recording device wherever he goes, Amirkhanian is a gatherer of sounds, sampling everything from the birds outside his home to Armenian folk songs.
		Amirkhanian’s career spans an enormous range of diverse projects.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=916 (480 words)

	Cantaloupe Music: Messiah Remix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Charles Amirkhanian, Eve Beglarian, Dälek, Luke DuBois, Phil Kline, Paul Lansky, Tod Machover, John Oswald, Scanner, Laetitia Sonami, and Nobukazu Takemura.
		Amirkhanian created a subtle collage of undistorted phrases from the original; Takemura added beats; Dälek added words; and DuBois electronically contracted the entire work into less than five minutes to create a beautiful wash of ambient sound.
		In his recent works, Amirkhanian incorporates sampled acoustic environmental sounds and traditional, pitched musical sounds to develop dreamscapes that act as disjunct narratives, evoking a world of memory-triggers which induce a trance-like listening state.
	www.cantaloupemusic.com /CA21020.html (1466 words)

	Riding the Meridian: Sound/Text by Charles Amirkhanian
		Composer, percussionist, sound poet and radio producer Charles Amirkhanian is a leading practitioner of electroacoustic music and text-sound composition and has been instrumental in the dissemination of contemporary music through his work as Music Director of KPFA/Berkeley from 1969 to 1992.
		Amirkhanian is widely known for his live and taped works utilizing speech (or sound poetry) elements in rhythmic patterns resembling percussion music.
		Amirkhanian's first solo CD was released in March 1998 by Starkland Records - Walking Tune (A Room-Music for Percy Grainger) - and includes the voice work Gold and Silver
	www.heelstone.com /meridian/charles/acharles.html (327 words)

	CD Baby: SEARCH RESULTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sheila Raye Charles brings her own flavor to well known songs and introduces you to her own abilities in her tribute to her dad.
		Original modern day classic bluegrass songs by IBMA showcase songwriter Charles Humphrey III are performed by Sam Wharton and musicians from the Steep Canyon Rangers, Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, and the Biscuit Burners.
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	cdbaby.com /found?allsearch=charles+lyonhart&skip=40 (1288 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian
		Born January 19, 1945, in Fresno, California, composer, percussionist, sound poet and radio producer Charles Amirkhanian is a leading practitioner of electroacoustic music and text-sound composition and has been instrumental in the dissemination of contemporary music through his work as Music Director of KPFA/Berkeley from 1969 to 1992.
		From 1993 to 1997 Amirkhanian was Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California.
		In his recent works, produced with the Synclavier digital synthesizer, Amirkhanian incorporates sampled acoustic environmental sounds (which he calls "representational sounds") and traditional musical pitched sounds ("abstract sounds") to develop dreamscapes which act as disjunct narratives, evoking a world of memory-triggers which induce a trance like listening state.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Amirkhanian.shtml (345 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian Interviews Henry Brant
		On Friday, August 31, 2001, Brant flew with his wife Kathy Wilkowski from their Santa Barbara home to San Francisco to meet briefly with Maestro Thomas to discuss the seating arrangements in the hall of the many different ensembles arranged throughout the architectural space and to test Davies Hall’s Ruffatti pipe organ.
		Thereafter, he spoke with Charles Amirkhanian about the new work and why he composes the way he does.
		Of course all music is space music because it takes space to play any kind of music—space for the musicians, space for the people listening and space for the sound waves to move.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Brantinterview.shtml (945 words)

	Amir.DL.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Charles Amirkhanian: Lexical Music contains text-sound compositions produced between 1973 and 1977 including the "Bolero" of American sound poetry, Dutiful Ducks.
		Charles Amirkhanian: Pas de Voix This CD release from Perspectives of New Music, the biennial journal, features the radio composition Pas de Voix in which Amirkhanian creates an aural portrait of the late Samuel Beckett.
		Charles Amirkhanian has been a leading proponent of text-sound composition in the United States.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~tebo/history/LongDur/Amirkhanian/Amir.DL.html (369 words)

	CDeMUSIC: Charles Amirkhanian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Charles Amirkhanian is a composer, percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer.
		He is a leading practitioner and proponent of text-sound composition and has been instrumental in the dissemination of contemporary music.
		Amirkhanian's commissions include West German Radio (Cologne), National Endowment for the Arts, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio VPRO (Nether- lands), Swedish Radio/Fylkingen, 1984 Summer Olympics, Radio Luxembourg, and choreographers Anna Halprin, Bill T. Jones, Richard Alston of Ballet Rambert (London)...
	www.cdemusic.org /artists/amirkhanian.html (192 words)

	Amazon.ca: Amirkhanian: Walking Tune: Music: Charles Amirkhanian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Charles Amirkhanian is a highly imaginative sound poet, text-sound creator, and contrapuntal collagist of the first order.
		Charles Amirkhanian's "Walking Tune" is an extended spoken-word portrait of late American composer Morton Feldman incorporating his recorded speeches and conversations.
		It's also an homage to Australian-American composer Percy Grainger where haunting violin melodies and fragments of Bach are combines with out-of-doors sounds like geese honks and swarms of hummingbirds to convey Grainger's own praise of nature, using "memory triggers" to create the presence of a person.
	www.amazon.ca /Amirkhanian-Walking-Tune-Charles/dp/B000002GVG (222 words)

	village voice > music > by Kyle Gann
		At first glance, Amirkhanian and Epstein were odd composers to pair: Epstein writes little besides acoustic chamber music, Amirkhanian makes polyphonic text poems and collages of environmental sounds.
		But as Amirkhanian pointed out, both were influenced in their early years by Gertrude Stein, who was sort of a proto-post-minimalist writer.
		Amirkhanian spoke several text poems accompanied by tapes of his own and other voices, the first, Ka Himeni Hehena, based on place names he found in the Hawaiian language, which (I bet you didn't know) uses only seven consonants, and thus must repeat many syllables—post-minimalistically—to carry any meaning at all.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0521,gann,64261,22.html (811 words)

	Art of the States: Vers Les Anges
		Amirkhanian was raised in Fresno, California and studied at Fresno State University, San Francisco State University, and Mills College in Oakland, California.
		As a composer, Amirkhanian has recevied commissions from radio stations throughout Europe as well as the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest, National Endowment for the Arts, 1984 Summer Olympics, and choreographers Richard Alston, Anna Halprin, Bill T. Jones.
		Amirkhanian's music can be found on the Centaur, CRI, Diffusion i Média, Fylkingen, Giorno Poetry Systems, OU, Perspectives of New Music, S Press, 1750 Arch, and Starkland labels.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=140 (403 words)

	Nancy Karp + Dancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dot Bunch, realized with support from the National Endowment for the Arts Inter- Arts Program funds, was created in 1984 in collaboration with composer Charles Amirkhanian and visual artist Carol Law.
		Amirkhanian is a master of colorful rhythmic audio montage.
		In this work, his palette included rhythmic loops and canons of text created with his own voice, recorded ambient sounds of tennis courts and other outdoor environments, as well as electronically synthesized sounds.
	www.nancykarp.org /work/dot_bunch.html (141 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian: Mental Radio
		Charles Amirkhanian (Woodside, CA) is a composer, percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer.
		For many years music director at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Amirkhanian was also founding co-director of the acclaimed Composer-to-Composer Festival in Telluride, Colorado.
		An internationally known radio artist, Amirkhanian is currently executive director of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, California.
	www.somewhere.org /NAR/work_excerpts/amirkhanian/main.htm (320 words)

	Xebec Sound Arts 11-Amirkhanian
		Amirkhanian: OK. "Composer to Composer" was a festival in Colorado, which no longer exists.
		Amirkhanian: Yes, it's the "Other Minds Festival." To the public, it's known as the Other Minds Festival, and most people don't know much about the thing at the ranch.
		Amirkhanian: We have older and younger composers, we have fl composers, Asian composers and Latin composers, and also white Americans and Europeans.
	www.sukothai.com /X.SA.11/X.11.Amirkhanian.html (733 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Charles Amirkhanian: Oratora Konkurso Rezulto - Autoro de la Jaro (Portrait of Lou Harrison, ...
		An original text-sound composition by Charles Amirkhanian, produced at the KPFA studios with the sounds of the voice of Lou Harrison, recorded in his home in Aptos, CA, by KPFA Chief Engineer George Craig.
		Amirkhanian composed a cut-up text in Esperanto, a favorite language of Harrison's.
		An early iteration of Amirkhanian's experiments with the spoken word as material for tape composition.
	www.archive.org /audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=AmirkhanianOratora&collection=other_minds (192 words)

	PAL: Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
		Dembo, L. "Objectivist or Jew: Charles Reznikoff in the Diaspora." 187-97.
		Wagner, Linda W. "Charles Reznikoff, Master of the Miniature." 225-32.
		"Notions of Diaspora in the Poetics of Marie Syrkin and Charles Reznikoff." Yiddish 10.4 (1997): 69-82.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/reznikoff.html (373 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Amirkhanian (born 19 January 1945) is a California-based composer of Armenian origin.
		He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music.
		Art of the States: Charles Amirkhanian three works by Charles Amirkhanian
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Amirkhanian (131 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian: Walking Tune: Starkland experimental music CD
		The CD presents the premiere recording of one of Amirkhanian’s most well-known and warmly received works, Walking Tune – A Room-Music for Percy Grainger.
		Charles jumps back and forth between these worlds with delightful ease, his curiosity and humor always evident.
		The latter piece realizes a cherished Amirkhanian ambition: to create cheers based on artists’ names.
	www.starkland.com /st206 (279 words)

	classical music - andante - san francisco's other minds highlights contemporary music on film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Other Minds Festival of New and Unusual Music, it is a sad irony that contemporary American music is well documented on films made in Europe — but never shown in the U.S. "Documentaries and features about contemporary composers just don't exist in America," he says.
		To combat this imbalance, Amirkhanian launched Eyes and Ears: The Other Minds Film Festival, the first U.S. avant-garde music festival devoted mainly to film, which opens today at San Francisco's Castro Theater.
		The three-day festival intersperses screenings — half of them American premieres — with live performances, filmmaker and composer appearances, and the world premiere of a medley of organ works by Australian-born American composer Percy Grainger, arranged for the Castro's gargantuan Wurlitzer by David Hegarty.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19086 (446 words)

	Lautpoesie-Bibliographie und Diskographie
		Radio discussion of text-sound composition by Charles Amirkhanian, musicologist and text sound composer, on radio station KPFA, May 4, 1975.
		Charles Dodge interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at his home in New York City.
		Amirkhanian, Charles: Radio discussion of text-sound composition by Charles Amirkhanian, musicologist and text sound composer, on radio station KPFA, May 4, 1975.
	www.engeler.de /amirkhanian.html (442 words)

	Interpretations 2004.05
		Composer, sound poet and percussionist Charles Amirkhanian (b.
		Amirkhanian holds degrees from Fresno State University (B.A., English, 1967), San Francisco State University (M.A., Interdisciplinary Creative Arts, 1969), and Mills College (M.F.A., Electronic Music and Recording Media, 1980).
		Charles Abramovic has won critical acclaim for his international performances as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with leading instrumentalists and singers.
	www.interpretations.info /5.5.html (975 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian: biography - electrocd.com — electroacoustic & beyond
		Charles Amirkhanian: biography - electrocd.com — electroacoustic and beyond
		Composer, poet, and percussionist Charles Amirkhanian has been a leading proponent of text-sound composition in the USA.
		His recent works typically incorporate processed ambient and found sounds which explore a rich continuum of sonic materials, layered and developed in the manner of a disjunct narrative playing of abstract (musical) sounds against representational ones (sound effects).
	www.electrocd.com /bio.e/amirkhanian_ch.html (145 words)

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